Animated Title Screen?

[crimsonnight]

Hi,

As I've done with the content of my novel, I've saved various layers and I'd like them to display/animate at set times on the title screen, how can I achieve this?

Further explanation: I want an image to be displayed, then another image to replace the original image ('flashing' in in time with the music) then a few seconds later I want the logo to fade in, and potentially animate a layer (such as clouds) on the final image - is this possible? Thank you!

[FatUnicornGames]

I think this could be accomplished with atl.

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 84#p202683

[crimsonnight]

Thank you

The post in that thread says 'youranimatedbgpic is defined where your other images are defined' - now I'm totally new to this - where is there? I tried underneath and in the script tab and neither worked.

Cheers!

[Victoria Jennings]

Where did you define the images for your characters (image xxx = "xxx.png")? That's what I imagine they're talking about.

[crimsonnight]

Under:

# Declare images below this line, using the image statement.
# eg. image eileen happy = "eileen_happy.png"

in the script.rpy tab

[crimsonnight]

Hi guys, I'm still having problems, could you please let me know how I keep the second image up whilst having the animated dandelions over the top?

init:
image title = Animation("titleipod.jpg", 1.25,
"title.jpg", 0.25,
"dandelion")

init:
image dandelion = SnowBlossom(Animation("dandelions.png"))

Also how do I edit functions? Does anyone have the right settings for dandelions floating across the screen? Cheers

[crimsonnight]

Help would be greatly appreciated, I really wanna get this sorted

[Levrex]

Sorry, but i don't really comprehend what you're wanting to do. The others too, probably.

Are you trying to keep that first animation thing up or what?
What are you trying to do with snow-blossom dandelions?

[crimsonnight]

Thanks for responding

Basically I want to show the first image for a certain amount of time (titleipod.jpg) then switch it to the full title screen image (title.jpg) then animate dandelions (dandelions.png) across the top of it and finally have the logo fade in.

My issue at the moment is that the dandelions aren't animating over the top, they replace the previous image - ie they're currently spawning on a black screen, how do I remedy this?

And secondly the dandelions are currently behaving as snow/cherry blossoms, I was wondering if anyone had a code for dandelions (ie travelling horizontally across the screen)?

*EDIT* Well to be precised I'd like to have the title animation zoomed into a certain area of 'title.jpg' then zoom out to the full image - this seemed too complex hence why I created a separate jpg of the area I wanted to zoom into (titleipod.jpg)

[Levrex]

Oh, that?

It is not hard at all, just learn ATL language. Just for the record, you can still use ATL in screens by "at" and "transform".
Here is a part of my ported scene from Matsuri, where it starts zoomed over a girl's eye, using one image, and then zooms out to the full picture, switching the image's expression halfway through.

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        show cg door fingers behind red as secondblock:
            block:
                "cg door delusion"
                zoom 3.0 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.257
                0.05
                easeout 0.05 zoom 2.2 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
                0.1
            block:
                "cg door fingers"
                zoom 2.2 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.25
                easeout 0.1 zoom 1.0 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
        with Shake((0, 0, 0, 0), 0.8, dist=40)

Is dandelions.png transparent?

Horizontal movement can be defined as a transition (taken from Utsukushii Effects):

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at Move((0.0,0.5), (-1.0,0.5), .15, xanchor="left", yanchor="center", repeat=True)

It shows light bolts moving fast across the screen (given the image). The width of the image should probably be greater than that of the window. If you want the image to move to its left corner, then back - slo~wly - then look up hpunch in 00definitions.rpy.

Oh wait, that is almost certainly not what you want.
What you want is there:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... nowBlossom
horizontal=True, yspeed=0.0

[crimsonnight]

Thanks a lot for trying to help but would you be able to simplify that a little for me?

Where does that code go, script or screen? and what exactly does 'show cg door fingers behind red as secondblock:' mean? I understand half of it

Yeah the 'dandelions.png' is transparent, any idea why it's not layering?

Cheers for the code, I did see that page before but I don't know where to put 'horizontal=True, yspeed=0.0' in the code?

Thank you for taking the time

[Levrex]

Thanks a lot for trying to help but would you be able to simplify that a little for me?

Where does that code go, script or screen? and what exactly does 'show cg door fingers behind red as secondblock:' mean? I understand half of it

It simply shows the cg event image under the "red" image, being assigned another name so it wouldn't replace another image with "cg" name on screen... well, you shouldn't care.

If i got you right, you want the dandelions to come from the right side of the screen in a wave, disappear from the screen's left side, then the logo fades in.

Do you show "dandelions" with "scene" statement? If so, that's where your fault is. Transparent (what's drawn on them is smaller than the screen) images are meant to be called with "show".
If you instead used a single transform, then that's your fault too.

Define dandelions in init phase only.

If your image looks like a single unmoving dandelion, then:

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image blossoms = SnowBlossom("dandelions.png", count=40, border=60, xspeed=(5, 20), yspeed=(0, 0), start=1.0, horizontal=True)

If it instead covers the entire screen or is bigger, just move it (zoom 2.0 only if necessary).

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image blossoms:
    "dandelions.png" xpos 2.0 yalign 0.5 zoom 2.0
    linear 2.0 xpos -2.0

If you want it animated while it flies (make it bloom), first you'll have to create a picture for each frame, then have an Animation which has all these frames.

Now the whole thing looks like this:

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label splashscreen:

    $ show_button_game_menu = False # Merely doesn't show quick menu on screen while the splashscreen lasts.
    $ renpy.pause(1.0)
    $ mouse_visible = False # Merely hides the cursor.
    show title:
        zoom 3.0 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 # Adjust if necessary.
        1.0
        easeout 1.0 zoom 1.0 # That's supposed to happen while dandelions fly over it.
    show blossoms
    with dissolve
    $ renpy.pause(2.5)
    scene black with fade # or replace it with title, but delete two last lines from "show title" block then.
    $ mouse_visible = True

That's how it's done.

[crimsonnight]

Thank you thank you,

So it should go here?

# The background of the main menu.
window:
xpadding 0
ypadding 0

label splashscreen:

$ show_button_game_menu = False # Merely doesn't show quick menu on screen while the splashscreen lasts.
$ renpy.pause(1.0)
$ mouse_visible = False # Merely hides the cursor.
show title:
zoom 3.0 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 # Adjust if necessary.
1.0
easeout 1.0 zoom 1.0 # That's supposed to happen while dandelions fly over it.
show dandelions
with dissolve
$ renpy.pause(2.5)
scene black with fade # or replace it with title, but delete two last lines from "show title" block then.
$ mouse_visible = True

# The main menu buttons.
frame:
style_group "mm"
xalign .98
yalign .98

I'm getting the following error when trying to run the game: File "game\screens.rpy", line 201: expected statement.
frame:
^

Line 201 is 'frame:'

[Levrex]

Not really.
Screens to screens (screens.rpy), complex labels to script.rpy. Such labels have no right to be present in a screen, because it will ruin a screen, obviously.
Remove the splashscreen label from that screen and copy-paste it to script.rpy (or anywhere, but not inside of any renpy statement).

[crimsonnight]

Cheers, think we're getting there, so should I put it in an init statement like this?

init:
image title2 =
$ show_button_game_menu = False # Merely doesn't show quick menu on screen while the splashscreen lasts.
$ renpy.pause(1.0)
$ mouse_visible = False # Merely hides the cursor.
show title:
zoom 3.0 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 # Adjust if necessary.
1.0
easeout 1.0 zoom 1.0 # That's supposed to happen while dandelions fly over it.
show dandelions
with dissolve
$ renpy.pause(2.5)
scene black with fade # or replace it with title, but delete two last lines from "show title" block then.
$ mouse_visible = True

then in screens put 'add title2'?

That creates the following error:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While executing init code:
File "game\script.rpy", line 33, in script
File "game\script.rpy", line 33, in python
Exception: Can't add displayable during init phase.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Dropbox\Ren'Py - Always The Same Blue Sky\renpy\execution.py", line 266, in run
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Dropbox\Ren'Py - Always The Same Blue Sky\renpy\ast.py", line 646, in execute
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Dropbox\Ren'Py - Always The Same Blue Sky\renpy\python.py", line 1172, in py_exec_bytecode
File "game\script.rpy", line 33, in <module>
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Dropbox\Ren'Py - Always The Same Blue Sky\renpy\exports.py", line 836, in pause
File "C:\Users\gwilde\Dropbox\Ren'Py - Always The Same Blue Sky\renpy\ui.py", line 395, in __call__
Exception: Can't add displayable during init phase.

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.14.1.366
Always The Same Blue Sky... 0.5


Line 33 is: $ renpy.pause(1.0)

Have also tried:

init:
label title2:
(and then the rest of the code)